I watched a lot of Johnny Cash shows over the weekend

[CatWoman]

Damn, he was good.

I have to buy some of his music.

Where I come from, Black people just didn't listen to C&W music.

But my dad was a true C&W fan. It was from him that I learned to appreciate Johnny Cash.

Did I mention that Johnny was damn good?

[demnan]

1. When the Man comes Around was his last

and it's a really good one. I recommend it.

Hey, where I come from whites didn't listen to soul or R&B, but my Dad loved Otis Redding and had all his albums!!!!

:hi:

[bleedingheart]

2. did you hear the part about cash being a

morse code operator?
and how it influenced his music...
that was kinda cool.

[ArkDem]

3. The Man in Black

Well, you wonder why I always dress in black,
Why you never see bright colors on my back,
And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone.
Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he's a victim of the times.

I wear the black for those who never read,
Or listened to the words that Jesus said,
About the road to happiness through love and charity,
Why, you'd think He's talking straight to you and me.

Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose,
In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes,
But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back,
Up front there ought 'a be a Man In Black.

I wear it for the sick and lonely old,
For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold,
I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been,
Each week we lose a hundred fine young men.

And, I wear it for the thousands who have died,
Believen' that the Lord was on their side,
I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died,
Believen' that we all were on their side.

Well, there's things that never will be right I know,
And things need changin' everywhere you go,
But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right,
You'll never see me wear a suit of white.

Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day,
And tell the world that everything's OK,
But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,
'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black

[Kahuna]

4. I don't like C&W but Cash was greaaaate! Have always..

loved and appreciated his music and great singing style.

RIP Johnny and June. You are missed.

[demnan]

5. You say that you don't like C&W but

when they replayed a Cash interview with Larry King last night, King asked Cash why Country music was so popular and Cash said something like "with some of it, I don't know why"

So I guess he didn't like C&W either!!! (at least not the stupid ones).

[mac56]

8. Johnny didn't like mainstream country.

Did his best to stay out of it.

I believe, in that same Larry King interview, he said his favorite current country artists were Dwight Yoakum and Emmylou Harris. New traditionalists, I guess.

Johnny was so much better than the current crop of "country" artists. Like the late Waylon Jennings said: "Garth Brooks's favorite band is Journey. That's all you have to know about Garth Brooks."

[dbt]

6. Cash was only labeled 'C&W' cause they needed a quick box

To put him in! I recommend 'Unchained' (where he was backed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers!!!) as your first purchase. It will show you that he never lost his hunger for the next horizon.

Put on "Southern Accent" and tell me if there ain't some soul in that song.

"Rusty Cage" might also sharpen your claws a little!

:bounce:
dbt
(MAJOR Wilson Pickett fan)

[catpower2000]

7. Some quote I heard this weekend about Johnny...

Don't remember who said it, but it was someone they were interviewing about him, and they said:

"If God had a voice, it would be the voice of Johnny Cash."

Live at Folsom Prison is arguably his best album.

Cat

[Raenelle]

9. He was my favorite singer.

I know his voice isn't pure, but there is something about him that gets inside of me the way no other singer can do.

The other thing about Cash, that makes him virtually irreplaceable--he was cool, so he could sing songs that would make lesser men look like maudlin morons, sentimental doofuses, but from Cash, they just sounded real and genuine and pure.